where flowers won't, time will grow (2023- present)

Through this project I have come to know the Northern California landscape not just as the backdrop of my childhood or a resilient character navigating the violence of western consumption but as a material witness to our lives’ events & a system of memory. I have come to know witnessing to be a revolutionary act. In my investigation of the landscapes innate witnessing of human movement I have begun to root through my own role as a witness and the ways in which actively looking at the things I want to turn away from, my mother’s suffering, the forest burning, can be a vehicle towards intimacy, love, affirmation, and resistance.